Despite the popularity of closing on both Christmas day and Christmas Eve (45 percent), few employers plan to recognize religious holidays by closing their offices in 2013, including Good Friday (21 percent) the first day of Rosh Hashanah (1 percent), the beginning of Passover (1 percent), and the end of Passover (1 percent).

“Instead of structuring their holiday calendar around specific religious holidays, many companies encourage their employees to observe days of religious or other special significance through paid time off, vacation, personal leave or floating holidays,” said Shawn Fegley, survey research analyst at SHRM.

The top five 2013 holidays that most organizations will observe are:

Thanksgiving Day (99 percent)tied with Christmas Day (99 percent)

New Year’s Day (96 percent)

Memorial Day (95 percent)

Independence Day (94 percent) tied with Labor Day (94 percent)

The day after Thanksgiving Day (71 percent)

Twelve percent of organizations will close their offices between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

The survey polled 573 randomly selected HR professionals at organizations of all sizes across the United States.

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